ABSTRACT
An integrated philosophy of peace must grapple with the paradox of striving to preserve the horizons of human life through the widest positive use of the sciences, or preserve institutions that are historically outmoded and socially outrageous. Treitschke, Ruskin and Nietzsche have charted the latter course. A paradoxical aspect of the attempt to frame an integrated theory of peace is the belief that such a peace necessarily excludes continued social progress. Everywhere voices are raised that peace is possible only if the delicate equilibrium of world power in existence is retained. The basis of a durable peace exists in ideas as well as in fact. The political theory of the Enlightenment, which did much to shape the form of Jeffersonian democracy, also served as a foundation of Marxian socialism. Whatever elements an integrated philosophy of peace may delegate to private ideological spheres, it must include an appreciation for the force and direction of human history.
